Pete Ashdown and Grant Sperry, who run XMission, a small internet service provider, were in Utahs National Guards Camp Williams. It is located across the street from the National Security Agencys infamous Utah Data Center, which houses the massive server farms that power the agencys sweeping digital surveillance operation; they had a rare invitation from the agency to tour the facility with a group of heads of other internet companies, professors, and politicians, and they were looking for parking. They could clearly see the 1 million-square-foot complex  in fact, anyone driving in the area, even on the main highway leading up to Salt Lake City, could spot the drab gray buildings. But here was a solider with an AR-15 telling them the center didnt exist.

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